The Bookmark Thief: An Inkwell & Whiskers Cozy Mystery (Book 2)

An elderly Maine woman is found dead in her boathouse after a November storm. Her son doesn't believe it was a fall. And Marlowe, the bookshop's Maine Coon cat, sits down on one folder and won't move.It's been three weeks since Nora Blackwell decided to stay. Blackwell's bookshop is hers now, and the back room is freshly painted. The town is getting ready for the first Blackthorn Book Fair. It will bring two hundred book dealers and a rare-book show to town. The library also keeps three of the twelve silk bookmarks that Cecily Marsh hand-painted for the town's 100th birthday in 1893.Then Phoebe Ellsworth, eighty-three, is found dead in her boathouse on the south shore. The doctor's note says a fall. Nora isn't so sure. Phoebe owned three more Marsh bookmarks, and she was about to give them to the library. Now they are gone. And for eight years, Marsh bookmarks have been quietly disappearing from estate sales along the Maine coast.Nora only meant to help Phoebe's grieving son. Soon she is following a trail of missing bookmarks, eight years back and seventy miles along the coast. The trail leads into the work her great-aunt Vivian did alone in the bookshop's back room for seven years before she died.Marlowe has claimed one folder in Vivian's file cabinet. The folder turns out to matter. So does the steel latch pin lying in the snow, ten feet from the boathouse door.The Bookmark Thief is the second book in the Inkwell & Whiskers series. You can read it on its own - but readers of A Margin for Murder will spot the bigger story running underneath.A feel-good cozy mystery with characters you'll love and a case you'll want to solve. A gentle romance in the background, nothing graphic.Available in Kindle Unlimited, ebook, and paperback. All 8 books in the Inkwell & Whiskers series are available now.